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Civil Service Awards Media Pack 2011
...prove systems, drive efficiency and increase its operating standards. Innovation and research are essential to...loped as the only senior civil service awards programme that promotes innovation and improvement across the en...
165 days ago
Latest report from Cranfield on Pubic Sector Innovation
Includes results of new research into commercial partnerships and new contractual models.
469 days ago
Presentations and Videos from Civil Service Live 2011
...and communication opportunities Tue 15:20 Collaborative innovation – from Newcastle to Lon...the answer to every business problem Thu 14:10 Ensuring Innovation + Enterprise = Growth...
170 days ago
Partners and Exhibitors - Direct-Path Consulting Ltd
...ter impact and sustainability alongside raising the standard in community engagement and public service delivery. Our business areas Service Innovation Community Engagement & Co-pr...
220 days ago
...s transformation, change and project management, solutions design and innovation. It is one...t of Education and Skills and the Department of Enterprise, Jobs, and Innovation. It is part of the Executive....
4 days ago
...of Reading. It will be quite fun to be on the other side of the fence…although that is more likely to worry the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills than it is the DfE...
50 days ago
Change across the civil service
...to learn as we go, both from each other and from others who have been there, done that, and procured the T-shirt (at a good price).Thanks to the innovation, professionalism, dedication...
162 days ago
...ves – who wouldn’t want to please their boss? · Competition does truly drive innovation · &n...
562 days ago
Betts: ‘Planning not a barrier’
...we start criticising the planning system”.However, Phillip Rutnam, the director-general of business and skills at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, argued that the p...
yesterday
Civil service sheds 25,820 jobs in nine months since spending review
...k and Pensions (DWP), including agencies, was 9,730. This equates to an eight per cent fall.The total job losses at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) was 1,410, o...
135 days ago
Opinion: Ian Watmore - The way forward for procurement
...tructure and corporate policies are such a drag on the creativity and innovation of our civil servants. This i...hrough supplier renegotiation, which is a tremendous achievement. One innovation that has already taken root i...
63 days ago
...nsive for companies which don’t (the minority), while unlocking the innovation needed in the 21st century.Le...ose a new way of meeting regulatory requirements, supporting business innovation suited to a company’s marke...
127 days ago
...e the HCS role such weight,” she says. “When Gus went out and about talking supportively about the civil service and promoting diversity and innovation and all of those things, he w...
8 days ago
...lone we may help try and solve one of the biggest blockers to getting innovation in government. That’s a goo...hey’re often working in digital environments which mitigate against innovation and against using their skill...
73 days ago
...contractor. “If you are effectively putting a buffer zone between yourself and an SME,” he said, “then you are going to stifle some of the innovation and risk-taking that an SME i...
171 days ago
...rogramme through various Ministry of Justice pilot schemes to a £10m Innovation Fund, recently launched by th...ts which specify an outcome rather than a process leave more room for innovation and can be an effective way t...
176 days ago
...began by discussing ‘consumerisation’: the shift whereby the consumer market rather than business customers now forms the biggest driver of innovation in technology. This has led t...
yesterday
Round table: Meeting the 25 per cent carbon reduction targets
...sitions they may look more favourably at investment in green measures.InnovationCSW publisher Kevin Sorkin, ch...ctively, but departments are less able to co-operate when it comes to innovation, since there is no forum or c...
24 days ago
Special report: SCS recruitment
...egraph sting operation late last year and lost control of media policy, senior civil servants were transferred from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills into the DCMS &nda...
110 days ago
The coalition special advisers
...of press role at Tory headquarters in 2007, Allan worked as a press officer for Fox.Click here to return to topSecretary of State for Business, Innovation and SkillsGiles Wilkes is unu...
176 days ago
Huawei is a leading telecom solutions provider. Through continuous customer-centric innovation, we have established end-to-end advantages in Telecom Networks, Global Services and Device...
151 days ago
NICS Live Belfast 24 April 2012
...NI Civil Servants together under one roof to learn, share and promote innovation and discuss the future of gov...work and generate new partnerships in an atmosphere of collaboration, innovation and change. The one day event...
10 days ago
...ent for Work and PensionsMinister's profileSpecial Advisers Back to top Department for Business, Innovation and SkillsMinister's profile...
163 days ago
Government should stimulate innovation through procurement, say Lords
Government is taking the “tried and tested” route to procurement, rather than stimulating innovation, according to chairman of the science and technology committee Lord Krebs. Click here to read more.
Tags: innovation, procurement, house of lords, lord krebs
142 days ago
Health department launches design challenge
The Department of Health and Design Council have launched a national challenge to develop new products and services which will improve the quality of life for people with dementia, and for their carers. The winners of the challenge will receive a share of the £360,000 prize fund, and profe...
Tags: innovation, dementia
150 days ago
Comment on "More targets? I thought they were a thing of the past"
...gets can act to increase the autonomy of front line workers and allow innovation and productivity? If high le...ts allow everyone to work together on a shared goal but to allow innovation to find the best way to achie...857 days ago
Comment on "The great thing about good design"
...a compromise between perception, cost, safety and practicality. In the time taken to share best practices and design, innovation has made them obsolete. The...850 days ago
